Thursday, May 17, 2012
Thirteen schools in the Walnut Valley Unified School District were recognized for demonstrating consistent high levels of student academic achievement.
Thirteen schools in the Walnut Valley Unified School District were recognized by the California business community for demonstrating consistent high levels of student academic achievement. Those named to the Honor Rolls “Scholar Schools” for 2011 by the California Business for Education Excellence were Castle Rock, Collegewood, C.J. Morris, Evergreen, Quail Summit, Maple Hill, Westhoff, Vejar, and Walnut elementary schools, Chaparral and Suzanne middle schools and Diamond Bar and Walnut high schools. After an extensive analysis of student achievement data for every public school in California, these schools stood well above the rest in getting students to grade level proficiency and beyond, district officials said. Schools received the …
The Associated Students led a rally and march on the campus Wednesday to voice concerns about education funding cuts and tuition hikes.
Decrying the increase in fees and the cuts to classes, Mt. SAC students Wednesday gathered in protest in the quad outside of the library. Around 50 students rallied, holding up signs lamenting the state budget crisis. The group later marched across campus. The protest follows Gov. Jerry Brown’s release Monday of his May budget revise, which cuts $8.3 billion in an effort to bridge a nearly $16 billion shortfall. Brown did not call for additional cuts to community colleges in his revise this time around, but his plan does call for slashing education spending if his proposed tax initiative does not get voter approval in November. Mathew Foresta, 22, one of the organizers of the protest, urged his fellow students to stand up for their …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Randall Planetarium will have a special program Saturday that is free to the public.
The Mt. San Antonio College Randall Planetarium will present a special program to celebrate the annular solar eclipse that will include observations with the planetarium’s solar telescopes on Sunday, May 20, 4 to 8 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. The annular solar eclipse on May 20 will be the first central eclipse of the 21st century in the continental United States and the first since May 10, 1994. The next solar eclipse is October 2023, according to NASA. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and sun, totally or partially obscuring the image of the sun. During an annular solar eclipse, the moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the sun, which causes the Sun to look like a ring of light around …
About 25 students had the opportunity to interview Mayor Chang at the end of Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Students with Cal Poly Pomona’s Reporting 2 class attended Tuesday’s Diamond Bar City Council meeting armed with a full list of questions for Mayor Ling Ling Chang. “At this level, they go out and cover live events,” said Doug Spoon, instructor and faculty adviser for the Poly Post. About 25 students had the opportunity to interview Mayor Chang at the end of the meeting. They were to stick to what was addressed at the meeting. The students asked about the city’s budget, the recent birthday celebration and the city’s use of social media.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The district children who live within the boundaries for the 2012-13 school year.
The Walnut Valley Unified School District is now registering for the 2012-2013 school year for children residing in within District boundaries. Students must be 5 years old by November 1, 2012 to enroll in kindergarten. You may register for transitional kindergarten if your child turns 5 between September 1st and December 2nd 2012. Please contact your local school to register. Details are also available on our website at www.wvusd.k12.ca.us or call (909) 595-1261 ext. 31360 for additional information.
Some 270 Pomona Unified School District employees received layoff notices. And more may come.
Some 270 employees with the Pomona Unified School District recently received layoff notices and officials say they will be forced to make even more cuts in order to shave a total of $19.3 million dollars off of the 2012-13 budget. On May 1, district board members approved the layoffs of 180 non-certified, or non-teacher, positions. In February, the board had approved cutting 90 certified instructor positions. “We’re having (a meeting) to discuss layoffs for administration here in June. There will be reassignments and cuts,” said Richard Martinez, Superintendent of the Pomona Unified School District. And if a tax initiative to increase the sales tax and raise levies on upper income earners - to help raise money for schools and balance the …
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Two Diamond Bar residents received their degrees from the university on May 5.
Two Diamond Bar students have graduated from Azusa Pacific University on May 5. Peter Fornos and Michael Gregg, were among nearly 1,400 graduates at the spring commencement ceremonies. Both earned a bachelors of arts degree in Psychology. Azusa Pacific University is an evangelical, Christian university committed to God First and excellence in higher education, according to a news release.
Diamond Bar High School Student Taylor Yada looks at the harmful effects that paper receipts have on the environment for a school project.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Project R.E.D., Receipts E-mailed Digitally, is the product of the Diamond Bar High School AP Environmental Science class project called 'Your World,' where we try to change the community to make it more environmentally friendly. Project R.E.D. brings to attention the harmful effects that paper receipts have on the environment. This is one student's report. The consequences of paper receipts are that receipt paper, called thermal paper, demands in the US are 640,000 tons per year. To put the amount into a realistic perspective, imagine eight semi-trucks filled to the top, and that’s just receipts! This equates to almost ten million trees cut down each year. It takes approximately four hundred gallons of oil to produce a …
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Friday, May 11, 2012
The school board rescinded 24 layoff notices Friday that had been issued to teachers in March.
The success of an early retirement program helped the Walnut Valley Unified School District avoid teacher layoffs, according to officials. In March, the district issued 24 preliminary layoff notices, the bulk of those to elementary school teachers. The board had until May 15 to issue permanent notices, but on Friday, those pink slips were rescinded due to an early retirement plan also approved in March. Superintendent Dean Conklin said that the district looked for ways to get a little smaller, and with 90 percent of the budget dedicated to personnel, that involved looking at the number of employees. “The budget is a distraction,” he said, “but if we’re not fiscally solvent, the budget is not a distraction. It’s everything.” Assistant …
All 24 teacher layoff notices were rescinded effective immediately. This story will be updated as more details emerge.
The Walnut Valley Unified School Board of Trustees announced late today they will rescind all 24 teacher layoff notices effective immediately. “We have been working very hard to prevent any teacher layoffs and doing everything we can to save jobs,” Board President Larry Redinger said through a written statement. Officials said the number of staffers who took an early retirement, approved by the board on March 21, made it possible to stop the layoffs. The District was forced to issue the preliminary notices before the required March 15 deadline due to the ongoing state budget crisis, district officials said. However, like so many other districts, Walnut Valley must develop a contingency plan in the event the Governor Jerry Brown’s …
Taylor Yada
6:19 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
We're not trying to COMPLETELY eliminate the production of receipts because of the fact that it would take many years to get people to agree to such. However, we are only trying to bring awareness to the subject and also offer an alternative. This way it reduces the impact of receipt paper on the environment. more ›